WordWolf

(I chopped down this post following... Unless it was reprinted, it was LIFE Magazine. I tracked it down when I was in college.

By "real miracles", I take it you don't mean the "parking-space-in-front-of-the-supermarket, which was the standard later, correct?

"Battlefield promotion". That's how they announced it. It was discussed in a previous thread which I raised...

Somebody asked about Rivenbark....

That's exactly how I saw it. An apostle is a SENT ONE. vpw came out of NOWHERE with this "an apostle brings new light to his generation. It may be old light, but to the generation, it is new light." Absolutely NO verses were used to support this, you may recall. Each ministry was just DEFINED. vpw made up this convoluted definition so that it would apply to him as he was seen by others. He then left it unstated for others to connect-the-dots. (Of course, since everything he taught was CURRENT and available ELSEWHERE, he didn't even fit his OWN definition, except by propaganda.) He called himself "THE Teacher", defined "apostle" so it could be applied to him, and did the SAME to "evangelist". He said an evangelist is one who PRIMARILY get the other Christians fired up for witnessing, NOT that THEY do the witnessing. Funny how it allows HIM to get the title without going on the field. Among some people, he claimed to "pastor" them in private. (Ask Ex C how well that worked.) That leaves "prophet", or "one who speaks for God". Anyone think he didn't want himself seen as "one who speaks for God"?

Should be "Missionary Man". I think that's a Eurythmics song, but it MIGHT have been an Annie Lennox solo venture. Haven't heard that song in quite a while... I don't think they get a lot of airplay.

Daredevil Stan Lee X-Men Stan is like Waldo on all those Marvel movies. If you know to look for him, he's easy to spot. (In Daredevil, he's the guy that young Matt Murdock stops from crossing the street against the light, in X-2, he's on the beach when that guy slogs onshore, in X-Men he's a hot-dog vendor, in Spiderman, he's pushing a kid out of the way as the Goblin rains concrete on the crowd.)

Supergirl Helen Slater The Legend of Billie Jean Funny- nowadays I remember Vic Tayback as much for his one Star Trek episode ("A Piece of the Action") as I do for the entire series of "Alice", which I've seen a lot less recently. *checks his IMDB entry* Hey! Vic Tayback was in "Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round"! That was when Harrison Ford played a bellhop and was told why he'd never make it as an actor. (The "bag of groceries" incident.)

:) Star Trek: Generations William Shatner Airplane II: the Sequel

If we were doing tv episodes, I'd say this was the "Lifebomb" episode of "Tales from the Dark Side." (That was creepy.) Since we're doing movies, I'll guess "the Producers".

Please direct threads of a DOCTRINAL nature to the DOCTRINAL forum.

This was probably confusion over the demonaic hanging out by tombs. This is not the same thing as a disembodied SPIRIT hanging out there. Then again, when it came to "Advanced class level" stuff, vpw seemed to just recite material with no understanding of it, and wing it when he wanted to expand on it.

Ellen Barkin The Big Easy Dennis Quaid (Raf, thanks for explaining why the name "Slaghoople" has been floating thru my brain this morning. That's the Liz Taylor link you used.)

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Wow. An eyewitness account to the bot ADMITTING to the attempted murder of Ricardo Caballero. A man SAW them ADMIT to responsibility and complicity. Wow. A man who wasn't there calls him a liar. He claims there was "no proof other than hearsay from Geer", despite the PUBLIC ADMISSION OF GUILT OF THE ACCUSED. In a court of law, that's admissible as EVIDENCE and may convict the accused all by itself. (Selective reading skipped the PUBLIC ADMISSION OF GUILT OF THE ACCUSED. Then again, selective reading is the modus operandi of some people....) Then he suggested that-since it wasn't reported in the books of others who might not have been present- that it didn't happen. He also said it never came up in Waydale or the GSC. However, Pawtucked HIMSELF confirms this has been discussed, albeit not by the eyewitnesses. That means that the eyewitnesses TALKED TO OTHERS, who passed it along. So, that means there have been quite a few "peeps" over the years, as the result of the absence of a Conspiracy of Silence. So, then, given that this has come up before, and we have an eyewitness account, where then does this objection come from? Is it the Cylon BaseStar of denial? Or just plain doo-doo bulldookey? (Or-just maybe-both?)

I'm narrowing this thread because, apparently, so much happened this year. I'm looking for the events of and about 1976. Yes, that will include 1975 and 1977 to a degree. However, I'd like the ones ABOUT 1976, whether or not they were actually IN 1976. So, please share all memories, no matter how fuzzy or "trivial". To help jog your memory, here's some events from US history and twi history... In 1975, "Jesus Christ is Not God" is published. "Saturday Night Live" begins airing on tv. Microsoft is founded. April 30, 1975. South Vietnam falls to Communist forces of North Vietnam. Attempted assassination of President Gerald Ford. In 1976, campuses are purchased in Rome City, Indiana ("the College of Biblical Research") and Gunnison, Colorado ("the Way Family Ranch-Camp Gunnison.") July 4, 1976, the US celebrates the 200th anniversary of the US Declaration of Independence with its Bicentennial celebrations. 1976, the Concorde begins flying Paris-NYC trips. 1976, the G6 is founded. In 1977, the PFAL '77 is done live at Ball State University. According to the memorial, in 1977, Howard Allen and "Uncle" Harry Wierwille were installed as Trustees on the Board of Trustees. In 1977, Volume 4 of Studies in Abundant Living was published. 1977, the Apple II is released. 1977, "Saturday Night Fever" comes out. The Atari 2600 VCS is released. The modem is invented. (Gerald Ford was US President 1974-1977) ========== Ok, the Bicentennial..... what happened?

When was this?

Many of us still believe that. ...after exposure to twi "leadership training." That doesn't tell you anything? Because it wasn't ONLY about the money-it was about CONTROL. The humiliation was social sanctions imposed to try to force conformity. They didn't want your money without your loyalty. They wanted your blind loyalty and strict obedience FIRST. Then the money is incidental, and they can jack up the ABS to any level LATER. That's simple sociology. And you KEPT coming back? It's only a question of WHEN.... The top leaders keep steering the ship for the jagged cliffs. The local leaders can make the deck events fantastic, but can't change that, and can't change the course-heading. Today they are.

Harry had it cupped in his hand at the time-the camera showed it. Ok, I can see that working. I wonder if the deleted scenes have something on that.... Once Belle said that, all I could picture was the Nora Desmond imitation. I'm unable to sit and watch Sunset Blvd because I keep hearing her scream "MAAAXXXX!!" when I try. Madame Maxime's name WAS taken from the word "maximum" (some variation of it) and so I would have accepted "curvy" in some degree or another- voluptuous or whatever- but THIN just didn't fly. This surprised me because I never bothered to follow up on the casting decisions so I didn't know what the actors looked like. I imagine we missed a number of scenes between them where this went back and forth,same as in the book. Either that, or Beaxbatons was such a wussy school that their top student STILL was only so good. I liked it a lot better than the third movie. Whatever happened to Mad-Eye's motto: "CONSTANT VIGILANCE!" and the references to never trusting his food and drink to not be drugged or whatever? It explained the hip flask quite nicely...

I think the saying is something like that. I do know that someone broke that rule once, and Stanslavski (founder of "the Method" of "Method Acting") used that as an example of what NOT to do. IIRC, in the movie, Neville gets nudged up to Harry, Harry and Neville have their discussion, and the scene immediately shifts to the next day, with Harry and Neville walking and talking, and Harry has the gillyweed PALMED. From then on, Harry's in full public view. Moody makes a comment to him about taking the gillyweed just before the start signal is given, but doesn't hand over anything. (And EVERYONE was watching the 4 champions.) ==== In the movie, Neville TELLS him about gillyweed, and Moody knows Neville told him, but there's no specific reference to how it got into Harry's hand. We know where it CAME from because Snape later confirmed his stores were missing gillyweed. So, it was in Snape's supplies, and then it was in Harry's hand. How it got from Point A to Point B was never specified. Did Harry have the time and skill to burgle the supplies at night or early in the morning? Neville's not good enough to handle a break-in (yet if ever).

He made that comment about white blood cells at least one other place and time. (Possibly ROA '77 which was on Healing.) I challenge his explanation on how white blood cells work. They don't "keep hitting an invader until it's pushed out", they disintegrate it by attacking cell by cell. Then again, why did he think he knew anything about MEDICINE in the first place?

*catches up to the thread* Nuts, I was going to guess "Time Bandits". The lasers thing sounded familiar. Ditto the Robin Hood and bedroom. Oh, well. ==== I'm confident I've seen the current one, but my memory isn't kicking up the name or scene.

After the previous mention of the Foe-Glass, not seeing its use for a moment towards the end was a lapse. I'm a little disappointed in the casting for Madame Maxime. She was supposed to have the same body-type as Hagrid. Ron greeted hearing her comments about being "big-boned" as "only thing that's got bigger bones than her is a dinosaur" in the book. Most characters are cast to look like they do in the book. I'm not sure what message they MEANT to send with the casting choice, but I'd sure I don't like it either way. I liked the entrance of the Durmstrang team, but found the entrance of Beauxbatons disappointing. In fact, Fleur's supposed to be at least BRAVER than she was depicted. As it stands, that school doesn't seem like it has much to offer-its TOP student didn't seem terribly competent. The incident at the World Cup was well-done, IMHO. I would have preferred to see the match itself, complete with the mascots, but I can see why they left it out-which meant they had to leave out "the weighing of the wands". (The veelah references.) Too bad-I wanted to see John Hurt return as Ollivander. I at LEAST wanted to see the teams introduced. What was with Dumbledore's comment before the maze? From his perspective, it doesn't make much sense. I also missed Amos Diggory's dig to Cedric about Cedric beating Harry, and Cedric making little of the comment. I also missed the commentary on the first challenge- "Are you watching this, Mister Krum?" And the guesses of what the clue to the second challenge meant. "I thought it sounded like Percy singing. Maybe you have to attack him while he's in the shower, Harry." "You're going to face the Cruciatis Curse!" Anybody know why both guest-schools suddenly became one-gender? I liked Dobby's role in the 2nd trial in the book- and how not EVERY plan goes EXACTLY as planned. (How DID he get the gillyweed in the movie, then?) I was sure they would skip the Age Line. Nice to see I was proven wrong. I liked this one a lot more than the last one, overall. The invites to the ball didn't go EXACTLY as I expected, but they handled it just fine. (And gave Alan Rickman a good scene. :) ) Also nice to see Angelina Johnson was cast correctly. Due to an apparent misunderstanding, she was Caucasian in the first movie. (Seems JKR neglected to mention her description in the first book, and everyone presumed the same thing I did. Lee Jordan almost had the same problem-but they corrected that before casting started. Good thing-he was too visible as the Quidditch match announcer in Book 1 to avoid notice if he was cast wrong.) This time around, they even got the hair right. Anyone spot the copy of the book "Flying with the Cannons" when the Golden Trio was on the Hogwarts Express?

I thought it was time for another trip down Amnesia Lane...